yeah, in my perception, it was always more of a “(following the) rule”. so purely optional. after all, the one rule is not “you must put the word ‘rule’ in the title of every post” >:3

I was in the original reddit community, its because every post has to have a title, making it a “rule”.

My mom has been known to be hella based at times

100%

I’ve also accidentally melted my fingerprints off on hot copper before, so I know how long to heat that under a blow torch to be effective. That’s if you don’t want prints for like a week though. It also hurts like a bitch but silvadene helps.